20XX 1.42.12 - полная версия

Hello! Today's 20XX 1.30 patch introduces Draco, the Endless Arsenal - 20XX's fourth full playable character! Draco is the master of 20XX's Weapons, and flips the "one Weapon, three Powers" paradigm on its head: instead, Draco uses three Weapons at once, and can only hold a single Power at a time. He has six unique Weapons at his disposal, and starts with two of them - the mighty Unstoppable Force, and the stunning Volt Edge.

Draco is available for 34% off (about $2 USD) this week, but we won't be putting him on sale often. Get him while he's hot!

20XX is also available today for Nintendo Switch and PS4, and will be available on Xbox One later today/very early tomorrow. The console versions (which cost $17.99) includes the Hawk DLC today. Draco will come to consoles as a free update as soon as we're able, along with the rest of Patch 1.3's content.

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DRACO, THE ENDLESS ARSENAL:
Draco is 20XX's fourth full character, designed to push 20XX's Weapons to the limit. Instead of equipping one Weapon and eight Powers, Draco can equip *eight* Weapons, and only one Power.
Draco has six unique Weapons that only he can use. He begins with two of them - the mighty Unstoppable Force, and the stunning Volt Edge. The other four are found in Primary Weapon chests. Additionally, Draco is occasionally offered a new Weapon after slaying a boss (in lieu of that Boss's Power).
Instead of holding the button to charge like 20XX's other Contractors, Draco automatically stores charges at all times, and uses them by holding UP when attacking. Each of Draco's unique Weapons has a special Charged effect - discover them all!
Draco's DLC allows players to use Draco in all of 20XX's gameplay modes. If you're playing with a friend who doesn't own the Draco DLC, you can still use him, and your friend will see him as normal.
The rest of Patch 1.3's features are free for all players, and do not require the Draco DLC. Enjoy!
CHANGES:
Advanced Options is here! Finally, you can customize a whole bunch of graphics options you never knew you wanted.
10 New Augs! Including one Prototype, one stackable, and eight once-per-run Augs.
Dashbolt's effect and the effect of Oxjack's Helm have been switched:

• Oxjack's Helm now fires a bolt upon dashing, and has had its damage increased (to 15 base, from 10).
• Dashbolt now increases dash speed and shortens dash duration, resulting in the same dash distance, completed in less time.
• Effectiveness of Dashbolt (the speedier dash) reduced to 25% (from 40%).

Reflex Rapidifier has been sent directly to the garbage, where it belongs. It will no longer spawn.
Made a few hefty performance optimizations.
Improved Character Select pod visuals.

New loading screen!
20XX is now available in Italian! Also, greatly improved the game's Japanese localization.

• Also, changed the sizes of some HUD elements to better fit the game's text in other languages.

Reworked multiplayer interface, and moved it next to the Play portal.

• 20XX now uses a Host/Join flow instead of "invite/find random." You can still right click on a friend in your Steam Overlay to join their game.

Polished netplay interactions:

• Other players changing characters in HQ no longer looks janky, and the UI shift now all happens at once.
• You'll no longer see players stutter-step/animation-loop when they're in a menu and you're not.
• Menus no longer hide player draw. (They didn't all do this, but now none do.)
• Fixed an issue causing Hawk's whip to look frozen as the other player in an online session.
• Fixed a few level handshake issues.
• Fixed the level-start flow as the client.
• The load process now all uses the new load screen.
• Improved packet loss detection & resend reliability and performance.
• Soul Chips are now synchronized in online multiplayer. (The host and the client will now receive the same amount when SCs are picked up.)
• The Bonus Timer is now periodically synchronized in online multiplayer. So is the team's Score.
• Reconnect is still unrefined. Instead of focusing on it, we focused on fixing the reasons you'd want to use it. It's still available as a last resort, but hopefully you'll need it less!

There's now a "Saving.." notification in the top right corner when the game saves. It's brief!
New SC and Nut counter UI elements.
Both Soul Chips and Nuts are now shown in the HUD in HQ. In game, your current SC count fades in for a bit after a pickup. We're doing this to better message the difference between the two.
Soul Chips now have a new font glyph (also for messaging purposes).
Datalore popups now stay on screen for much less time.
Zookeeper's Zeal now spawns slightly less frequently.
Fixed and unified a lot of machine text and button display positions.
Improved messaging on teleport-to-ally in co-op. (The tip appears more often if you're playing 2P, and the icon in the center of the signal wheel is now much more obvious.)
Iconified tutorial signs.
BUG FIXES:
Fixed a memory-related issue (a leak!) that could eventually cause the game to crash. This should especially help Endless players, but will really be helpful for anyone who plays a lot of 20XX in a single session.
Fixed a bug causing a certain sequence to fail to start with the host of a multiplayer game dead.
Fixed a bug causing Enlightenment to spawn (it's not ready yet!).
Fixed a bug (for when Enlightenment is ready) causing it and Fortune Stabilizer to eject would-be shopgoers into the void.
Fixed Leafpetal and Kinetic Converter spawning in Purist runs.
Fixed Back not working in Hawk's stats page (and a few other places).
Fixed an issue causing Creepers to instantly spawn as the client in online multiplayer in Glory Zones.
Fixed Air Time being unlockable while dead.
Fixed Unlocks not immediately counting when purchased in the Ark. (They still unlocked and gave you the benefit next run, but previously you'd have to change characters or enter the game to see it.)
Fixed multiplayer signals pointing the wrong way if the signalled point is on screen.
Fixed the "teleport!" icon being too big once activated. (Also made it smoother.)
Fixed a crash that'd happen if the game was left paused for several hours.
Fixed the jump buffer to behave better around drop-through platforms.
Fixed an issue that could cause the player to fall-loop endlessly in certain places where platforms are very, very close to lava.
It's no longer possible for the client to skip Boss Drama - instead, the client will be informed if the host skips it.
Fixed Repros interacting with Boss i-frames.
AL no longer shows up and taunts you after level 3 in a Dearth run and offers you Boss items that don't exist.
Fixed the client's pause menu showing the host's statline in online co-op.
Fixed the client's score submission using the host's character in Challenges.

Hello! Today's 20XX 1.2 patch introduces Hawk, 20XX's third full playable character! Master her whip-like Siphon, and rain destruction on your foes with her nearly-limitless pool of whip-stolen Energy. (Using her requires the new Hawk DLC, which will be about $2 until the end of the Lunar New Year sale, and $2.99 thereafter.)

This patch also contains 9 new Augs and a tremendous number of QOL updates and fixes. These non-Hawk updates are free for all players, and are not part of the DLC.

Read more about Hawk and the new changes below!

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IT'S HAWK (requires Hawk DLC to use!):
Hawk is 20XX's third full character, built to master 20XX's Powers. Her whip-like Siphon steals energy from foes, giving her a nearly limitless supply of fuel for her devastating unique Powers.
Hawk has five unique Powers - she begins with one (the Protorifle), and can find four more in the game's Primary Weapon Chests. Hawk finds these Powers in lieu of Primary Weapon swaps.
Hawk's DLC allows players to use Hawk in all of 20XX's gameplay modes. If you're playing with a friend who doesn't own the Hawk DLC, you can still use her, and your friend will see her as normal.
The Hawk DLC costs $2.99 (USD), but through the end of the Lunar New Year sale, Hawk will be 34% off. Her DLC won't be part of every sale, so get it while it's hot!
The rest of Patch 1.2's features are free for all players, and do not require the Hawk DLC. Enjoy!

CHANGES:
Made a general performance improvement that should help people experiencing slowdowns.
Added 9 new Augs! Discover them, and unleash their power.
New Skull: Dearth! Dearth disables the three-item Boss Choice from appearing in the post-Boss room after Level 3. (This means only up to 3 Powers can spawn in that run, and if a Boss doesn't show up in the first three levels, its Power is unavailable this run.)
In scored modes, Level 10's time bonus now applies after defeating the boss, instead of at the end of the level. The bonus timer now also shows up properly during the level during Challenge/Seeded runs.
Nina's shots now combo on bosses similar to Ace's attacks. If Nina strikes a boss with a primary weapon, she can now hit the boss up to twice more in quick succession for additional damage. Scatterbeam is excluded from this change. (This is a Nina buff.)
This combo does not scale with how many shots Nina can have on screen at once.
Enemies protected by Maintcore shields (Beta and Gamma variants) now take 90% reduced damage (instead of being completely immune to damage).
Shield-piercing weapons still ignore this damage reduction.
Juiced Force Nova no longer has any damage scaling as it chains. (This is a buff - the damage scaling was negative.)
The Bonus Timer no longer ticks down in the pre-boss hallway.
Co-op pairs playing the same character once again receive the same Primary Weapon when destroying a Blue Chest.
Oxjack's Blitz (Leg Core) now has a "grace zone" when air-dashing horizontally very close to the ground.
Airdashing super close to the ground currently has a feel-bad case where a falling player intends to dash immediately upon reaching the ground, but instead activates his airdash a hair above the ground (so he never lands, and never restores his jump or airdash). This feels bad. Today's change checks if you're really close to the ground when activating an airdash, and if so, pretends you landed before dashing.
This change will not count the player as having landed for safe-return calculations.
Moved Character Select text so it doesn't overlap the HQ sign.
Normalized Flat's mortars a bit. (No more hyperspeed Mortars.)
Implemented a jump buffer. Jump presses will buffer for up to 100ms, so if you hit Jump a hair too early (say, right before hitting the ground), you'll jump anyway upon ground/wall contact if you're still holding Jump.
Added a pop-up menu notification when attempting to join a player's game when you're not in the lobby.
Memory optimization: 20XX now unloads characters not in use by the game on game start. Please tell us if you still see Flat black-boxing sometimes!
Tweaked Core Aug availability. Reduced Glory Zone occurrence by a hair, and decreased the chance that a given Shop item is a Core Aug. On average, the goal here is to reduce the number of Cores that spawn by about 25%.
We understand this one might be controversial, and we're keeping an eye on it. In general, too many Cores were spawning in a typical run - when all 16 are likely to spawn, players don't really have to make choices about what to take - doing the best with what's available is an important part of 20XX.
Reorganized Datalore. Primaries are now all one section, and Powers have their own section.
Tiny Flamespewer rebalance:
Tiny Flamespewer's flames no longer pierce except when they kill the enemy they hit.
Tiny Flamespewer's flame base damage increased to 15 (from 10).
Tiny Flamespewer's flames deal reduced damage to Bosses, but each flame can now hit a Boss separately.

BUG FIXES:
Really, really fixed the way cutscenes draw.
Fixed an issue causing some projectiles that pierce slain enemies from failing to do so (and vice versa).
Fixed an issue causing chests to draw in front of other enemies.
Juiced Force Nova no longer sometimes hurts your online co-op partner. (This is also a buff, unless you're a jerk.)
Fixed a spooky invisible Wind Platform in a certain Skytemple config.
Fixed a bug causing leaderboard finishes to display Level 10 instead of "FINISH!" in the Level column.
Fixed a netplay issue causing the host to be able to pull up the Main Menu while waiting for the client, resulting in general havoc.
Fixed the Bonus Timer in Boss Rush.
Fixed a bug causing a super-zealous Re-Flapp to gobble up an Astral before the fight starts, breaking the game.
Fixed a missing Level 10 drop-through platform.
Fixed an issue causing Death Lotus and Spirit Vine attacks to occasionally fail to register.

Hello, and happy holidays! Today's 20XX mini-patch makes 20XX less greedy about your system & video card memory and fixes one bug.

Some players have been reporting black textures (and, in a few cases, even crashes!) since 1.11, so we're rolling this fix patch out to try and combat that problem. If you still see black textures or other weird visual artifacts in game, please tell us!

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CHANGES:
Reworked the way 20XX uses memory to make it more efficient over the course of a run.
Reworked the game handles Boss Drama pop-ups to be more memory efficient.

BUG FIXES:
Fixed an issue that could cause Glory Zone completion to return the wrong set of Powers.

Patch 1.10 is a 20XX content patch! It's slated for release in November.

We've desgined a bunch of new Augs -- thanks for your awesome suggestions! We're currently looking at 10 new Augs for 1.10, split between Once Per Run Augs, Prototypes, and standard stackable Augs, all aimed at giving you variable gameplay full of interesting decisions. We've also taken a balancing pass at a few existing Augs.

Thanks to your feedback, we've identified a few places that 20XX's level designs have room for improvement. 1.10 will contain a slew of new level pieces, as well as passes on existing pieces. (We'd still love to have an awesome, fully functional level editor - getting it right is not feasible in the short term, and we're still figuring out exactly what it'll take to accomplish.)

We've made a sweeping overhaul of a few of 20XX's under-the-hood systems, aimed at polishing the game's renderer. (We haven't touched the game's controls.) If you've ever had performance issues in 20XX, we'd love to hear what you think of 1.10! We've also made text drawing clearer, and resolved a few lingering text wrapping issues.

We've also added some new visual effects to game elements we decided could use a little more eye-spice!

As with every patch, 1.10 also brings with it a slew of bugfixes. To make sure it's the best it can be, it'll be coming to our Superfriends pals before it goes live.

Endgame level length changes:
Level 9 is now 25% shorter.
Level 10 is now 17% longer.
After a ton of back and forth with the community, we're happy with the individual difficulty level of level 9's segments, but think the level runs on a bit too long. We've boosted level 10's length a little to compensate - we may experiment with making it a bit longer, but don't want to overshoot it.
With double-tap dashing enabled, 20XX now recognizes double-tap dash and button-press dash as two separate actions (so it's possible to dash with one or the other while holding down the other button from a previous dash).
Lotus Spawns no longer attack from further than half a screen away when encountered in the Station.
Standardized Splinterfrost wall-slide behavior. (It now always does what you'd expect.)
Ace's Plasma Blender no longer enters ultimate screenshake jank mode when fully charged.
Seed Racer Changes:
Seed Racer now does a better job of behaving like a challenge (so players can compete for the best score on a given seed). We highly recommend players doing this at least enable Destiny, but hey, you do you.
Seed Racer now reports score like a Challenge in every way.
Skittery Smuggler no longer spawns in Seed Racer.
Seed Racer now treats level 1 as though it were difficulty level 2 (like Challenges do).
Seed Racer already used the Challenge item pool - no change here. (This has always meant that the seed you see while playing Normal/Defiant/Reverent doesn't match up 100% with the same seed in Seed Racer -- the Augs you find will change, but the rest should be pretty similar.)
Tweaked some unfair-feeling level pieces/hazard placements.
Next-run item determination logic changed up a bit. Two of the same item should no longer show up in the same next-run option set.

BUG FIXES:
Vitality Converters in Non-Standard game modes (any mode that isn't Reverent, Normal, or Defiant) now ignore the "do you have enough stuff unlocked?" restriction (for consistency).
Level completion achievements will now trigger properly in online co-op as the client.
Fixed a weird interaction with armor that could cause the Untouchable achievement to fail to trigger. (Also fixed Armor-damage not counting as a "damage instance" - it's totally supposed to.)
On-level items (Consuming Fury, Pure Flame, etc) now play nice with multiple Save and Quit actions on the same save file.
20XX will now remember what next-run items you've purchased if you quit before your next run.
This means the "get a ton of soul chips, unlock items, quit and restart, unlock more items" exploit no longer works. I wanted to keep it, but it's more important to not have that bad-feel of unlocking at the end of a gameplay session and losing your next-run new stuff.
Fixed Meganut not working well in online multiplayer if the client picked it up.
Fixed a bug causing level 10 deaths to read as "FINISH!" on Score Leaderboards.
As a consequence of this change, existing leaderboard finishes will read "10" instead of "FINISH!" - unfortunately, there's no way around this. We were incorrectly writing "10" into the LB data for finished runs.
Future runs will record correctly.
This fix doesn't impact Speedrun boards in any way (they were unaffected by the bug).
Fixed "NAME" and "RANK" being swapped on all Leaderboards (in all languages).
Fixed a bug with Interesting Times where it wasn't properly subtracting HP/NRG as its on-level penalty, resulting in higher HP/NRG values than intended. (This bugfix is a nerf.)
Interesting Times should be working properly, but we've gotten a few reports of it not removing the negative effect after picking up System Restore. It's not clear players are seeing the previous level's benefit going away and thinking that's a negative impact - let us know if you're still seeing four stat changes after picking up SR!

OST UPDATES:
Added the track "V for Victory."
Updated the track list.
Added missing MP3 metadata.

Netplay performance improvements! We've tightened up how 20XX's netcode handles certain kinds of data - the result should be fewer drops of data you care about, and better overall performance (especially on lower end machines).
Ultrawide support! We compromised on this. Ultrawide should now work properly up to 21:9, but will be black-barred to 16:9 in Challenges. (Your UI'll still be drawn outside the game view.)

BUG FIXES:
Fixed a bug that'd prevent the Fox Only achivement from triggering.

KNOWN ISSUES:
20XX's online multiplayer doesn't play super well with alt-tabbing from fullscreen. We'll address this in a future patch, but the testing burden involved is a little too heavy for the time I have in the next few weeks.

Level 9 tweaks:
Our goal here is to preserve the challenge of completing each individual challenge-set in Level 9 while making it a little more accessible on Normal/Reverent. Particularly on Normal, the player will still have to complete the exact same caliber of challenges as before this patch, but they'll have a little more leeway in doing so. We'll see how folks feel after this change set. Whether or not you felt L9 needed some tweaking, let us know how you feel about this! We're being super careful not to overshoot here.
On Reverent Mode, level length reduced by 25%. Level length unchanged in all other play modes.
Added many more crate/machine opportunities to Level 9, so they'll come more than once in a blue moon. On Defiant and in Challenges, these crates/machines spawn much less frequently (50% less likely, which is still more crates than currently spawn by a good bit).
Platforming difficulty unchanged in all modes.
The level 9 boss' "Astral Orb" ability no longer deals contact damage (so players only need to avoid the beam it creates). Astral Orb move speed also reduced.
Glory Zones now have some bad luck protection involved - at most two levels should go by without one popping up. Statistically, this results in about one extra Glory Zone every two runs.
Alpha/Beta Arkors attack rate as Soul Foes reduced. Gamma Arkors attack rate as Soul Foes increased slightly (10%, up from 0%).
Taste the Rainbow no longer requires that the player also have Mixmatch Mastery. (Kind of a change, kind of a bugfix.)
Earthmetal Plating can no longer decrease your HP below 1 when picked up (so it won't kill you).
Seed Racer now starts level generation at difficulty 2 (like Challenges do).
When 20XX closes to desktop because of a failed tileset load (if you've had CTDs loading into lategame levels, this is probably you), it'll invoke the game's Save and Quit functionality before closing (if Save and Quit is available). This means you should be able to hit "continue" as long as you only hit a one-off crash (such as failing to load a level due to insufficient memory).

BUG FIXES:
Fixed a bug causing co-op clients to rarely have runaway platforms at the start of a level. This was usually reported on level 9, but could happen on Skytemple as well.
Fixed a bug causing Nut Zero to trigger with Bankrupt on if you completed a DHC that activated Bankrupt.
Fixed being able to get stuck in Phase Blocks after locking them with Shadespur.
Fixed a bug that'd occasionally cause The Volunteer to fail to convert a Scrap Recycler into a Very Safe Lab.
Fixed a certain boss HP bar re-appearing if you change the screen resolution.
Fixed an ancient bug (seriously, I think this one has been around for years) that could cause player 2 in local co-op to spawn into a run as Ace, even if the player was Nina before starting the run.
Decreased visual explosion density during one particular explosion-heavy section (for framerate concerns, especially on Less High). Danger level unchanged.
Fixed a bug that could prevent Arsenal from triggering on a given player's account. (Players with everything unlocked that don't have Arsenal should get it once they enter HQ.)
Corrected a few Datalore errors.

KNOWN ISSUES:
There are a few places text doesn't wrap correctly. We're rolling a new text renderer for our ports, and will fix these when they're done (so we can avoid doing the work twice).
There are a few issues relating to changing display type/resolution resulting in non-perfect results - we're working on this one, but haven't been able to fix it yet.

CHANGES:
Forcemetal Shell unlock cost increased to 16 Soul Chips. (Folks who've already unlocked it can ignore this.)
At its current position, new players that've unlocked up to Forcemetal Shell in its current spot are too likely to have runs spawning enough Shells to give players super negative speed. We're okay with veterans making that choice, but that feels pretty bad when you're just learning the game. At its new position, players will have either unlocked or be close to unlocking Contractor Plus, Hypersash, and Leafmetal - super negative speed will still be possible, but less likely.
Adjusted a few level segment configurations that were a little tougher than intended (and one that was very, very close to impossible under certain item conditions). For folks following the recent Level 9 discussions, one of the adjusted segments is a Level 9 piece.
Moved the camera boundaries in the final boss' room in 4:3 resolution so it's not cut off. 4:3 players - if you have other camera issues like this, tell me!

BUG FIXES:
Fixed a bug that could cause co-op clients to fail to trigger game-completion achievements (like Survivor). We may have more work to do here, but this should get us most of the way there.

Level 9/10's fast-moving droplet background is now disabled on Less High. We're hoping to add a better, more granular vfx control set before long, but if you're just dying to turn that moving background off, this'll do the trick for now! (If you play on Less High and really like this background, tell us! We're going to build a better VFX control layer, but if this change makes a bunch of people have less fun we'll fix it ASAP.)
Un-hid a few Achivements that were stubbornly staying hidden.
Online game clears now set the same Glory Zone unlock flags as non-online game clears.
Kur can no longer follow up a cube-wave with a dash if the wave's safe spot is the bottom of the room. (Cheapshot removal)
There's now a three second grace period at the start of a certain lategame sequence.
(Sort of a fix) AL is now much more eager to bust up things that might be in your way.

BUG FIXES:
The Reveries achievement now triggers on lost runs.
Fixed the "Sorry to Jet" achievement.
Fixed a potential crash on super-low-end systems during cutscenes.